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Global Mainstream Media Fills its Boots with Bitcoin News as Prices Rocket
17.12.2020
With bitcoin (BTC) prices finally doing what they have threatened to do for the past few weeks – namely breaking the key USD 20,000 threshold and not stopping there – the mainstream media has once again gone gaga for crypto all over the globe.
Here is how some of the world’s biggest media outlets...
Snowden Reacts to Bitcoin’s New Price Milestone — Whistleblower Tweets ‘One word: Bitcoin’
16.12.2020
The price of bitcoin has just hit a historic milestone in a turbulent year, crossing the $20,000 threshold, refreshing its all-time high, and well-known crypto advocates such as Edward Snowden have been reacting to the news on social media. Snowden Reacts to Bitcoin All-Time Highs The famous...
Chinese State Media Surprises With Forecast of Bitcoin Outshining Gold
15.12.2020
Chinese state-operated media outlets keep adding cryptocurrencies — specifically bitcoin — on their reporting agenda. Lately, they have been replicating bitcoin predictions that are surprising in some way to the crypto community due to the number of mentions on the matter since several...
Investigation traces scam Bitcoin celeb ads to Moscow
15.12.2020
More countries are allegedly involved in a major global Bitcoin ad scam
Representation Matters
15.12.2020
This year I had the pleasure of re-launching The Accessibility Project. I spend a lot of time researching and writing about accessibility and inclusive design, so this felt like the cumulation of a lot of that effort. The site now uses all sorts of cool web features like CSS Grid, @supports,...
The Great Reset Agenda: ‘Bitcoin Is a Decentralized and Rational Strategy to Opt-Out’
15.12.2020
Every single day the conversation about the Great Reset continues to amplify. More recently, mainstream media publications have been publishing rebuttals in response to the many skeptics of this agenda who believe the reboot propaganda is meant to install a new world order. The American broadcaster...
Give Users Control: The Media Session API
14.12.2020
Here’s a scenario. You start a banging Kendrick Lamar track in one of your many open browser tabs. You’re loving it, but someone walks into your space and you need to pause it. Which tab is it? Browsers try to help with that a little bit. You can probably mute the entire system audio. But wouldn’t...
Chinese State Media Keeps Surprising With Bitcoin ‘Outshining’ Gold Prediction
14.12.2020
Internet observers have expressed surprise after the Chinese state-run media outlet CCTV carried some bold predictions about bitcoin (BTC)’s long-term future – and featuring a forecast that BTC fever may apply downward pressure on gold.
CCTV is one of China’s leading, state-operated broadcasters...
Bitcoin.com Wallet Adds Shareable Payment Link Feature – Send Bitcoin Cash to Anyone via Text, Email, and Social Media
10.12.2020
At Bitcoin.com, our team is all about spreading the benefits of peer-to-peer electronic cash and our flagship wallet is a testament to our team’s passion. Bitcoin.com’s noncustodial crypto wallet recently upgraded and now offers a new payment link feature that allows anyone to send...
Creating websites with prefers-reduced-data
8.12.2020
Spoiler alert: There is no support for it yet. But it is defined in the Media Queries Level 5 spec that includes other recent, but more familiar user preference features, like prefers-color-scheme and prefers-reduced-motion.
The Polypane blog goes into incredible depth on prefers-reduced-data...
‘Shameless’ season premiere name drops Bitcoin and other crypto
7.12.2020
Too bad the brief crypto-related conversation was largely nonsensical
It’s not about data ownership, it’s about data control, EFF director says
4.12.2020
She believes that by agreeing to certain "Terms of Service," users abdicate a portion of their rights
Streamix.io Launches High Yield APY DeFi Farming on ValueDeFi.io
4.12.2020
PRESS RELEASE. Streamix.io, a crypto currency DeFi startup and social media platform for streaming and gaming, partnered with ValueDeFi.io, which allowed Streamix to be one of their first cryptocurrency projects to use their FaaS (Farming-as-a-Service) platform and drive more value. See and trade...
Sorry, Bitcoin, Altcoins Start Grabbing the Spotlight in Mainstream Media
4.12.2020
Source: Adobe/Dušan Zidar
Bitcoin (BTC) prices have been grabbing all the headlines in the mainstream media of late, with the token pushing toward the key USD 20,000 mark – but with altcoins also surging, some major conventional media outlets are now helping millions of their readers to find...
Did Fox Business book a Bitcoin SV proponent by mistake?
4.12.2020
The interview with Bitcoin SV advocate Jimmy Nguyen on Fox Business came to an abrupt end after only two minutes
Oldest Bitcoin mining pool ‘immortalizes’ bullish Reuters headline
3.12.2020
Slush Pool encoded a Reuters headline in an apparent nod to the Bitcoin genesis block, which contains a banner from The Times
Chinese State-Run Media Believe BTC Price Surge Is Just ‘Hype’ While Praising Blockchain
3.12.2020
Two Chinese state-run media outlets have published a brief news item urging citizens to focus more on blockchain technology than on the “hype” of the recent surging Bitcoin prices across the board. China’s Government to Focus on Blockchain Both Sina and Xinhuanet have stated that...
Reuters runs the headline Bitcoiners have longed to read
2.12.2020
Mainstream news agencies are beginning to provide positive coverage of Bitcoin, acknowledging its proper significance as an asset as the US dollar nosedives
Chinese State Media: Ignore Bitcoin Hype, Stay on the Blockchain Path
2.12.2020
China’s state-run press agency Xinhuanet has published a short piece urging citizens in the country to ignore the hype of surging bitcoin (BTC) prices – and instead keep faith in the state’s pro-blockchain policies.
In the piece, which was carried by media outlets such a Sina, two Tianjin-based...
Microsoft Report says Nation-State Hacker Group is Leveraging Cryptocurrency Techniques to Stay Under the Radar
1.12.2020
A new security report by Microsoft says nation-state hacker group Bismuth is now deploying cryptocurrency-mining malware alongside its regular cyber-espionage toolkits. According to the report, the deployment by Bismuth of Monero coin miners in recent campaigns has provided another way for...